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• Name: Elizabeth PARKER
• Sex: F
• Birth: 23 Aug 1751 ^b
• Death: 15 May 1821 ^d


Parents:

• Father:
  
• William PARKER Death: Abt 18 Apr 1757
Mother:

• Elizabeth TODD Birth: 1730 in Co Armagh, Ireland Death: 21 May 1790

Family:
Marriage:

• Andrew PORTER on 20 May 1777 .^m1
  
• Andrew PORTER Birth: 24 Sep 1743 in Norristown, Pennsylvania Death: 16 Nov 1813 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

Children:

1. Charlotte PORTER Birth: 1 Feb 1778
2. Anna Maria PORTER Birth: 1 Jan 1781 Death: Apr 1781
3. Alexander Parker PORTER Birth: 8 May 1782 Death: Aug 1782
4. John Ewing PORTER Birth: 11 May 1784 Death: 14 Nov 1819 in Plymouth, North Carolina
5. Harriet PORTER Birth: 19 Oct 1786
6. David Rittenhouse PORTER Birth: 31 Oct 1788 Death: 6 Aug 1867 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
7. George Bryan PORTER Birth: 9 Feb 1791 Death: 18 Jul 1834 in Detroit, Michigan
8. James Madison PORTER Birth: 6 Jan 1793 Death: 11 Nov 1862

Bibliography

Sources for birth and parent Information

date:

[Ref: Helm TODD p172],

parents:

[Ref: Helm TODD p172, Helm TODD p75]

Sources for death Information

date:

[Ref: Helm TODD p172]

Sources with Information about marriage to Andrew PORTER

date:

[Ref: Helm TODD p174],

child:

[Ref: Helm TODD p174, Helm TODD p274, Helm TODD p276]

Research Notes:
While the army was at Valley Forge, the young wife was accustomed to visit the encampment on horseback, carrying delicacies and clothing to her husband. One evening an officer in undress uniform met her as she was entering the camp, and finding some of the trappings of her horse awry he adjusted them for her and paid a high compliment to the animal, which she informed him was of their own raising. Learning her name he walked beside her horse, asking her a number of questions about the people along the Schuylkill and their sentiments. "I think I see your husband," he remarked, smiling and turned away with a bow. "Well my good lady, you come into camp highly escorted," Captain Porter said to his wife as she rode up to him. "By whom?" she asked. "By the Commander-in-chief." She was a lady of unusual intelligence and an exemplification of all the domestic virtues. [Ref: Helm TODD p174]



Pedigree of Elizabeth PARKER
          /-----(Unk) PARKER
 /-----William PARKER
Elizabeth PARKER
|                           /-----John Or James TODD
|                  /-----John TODD
|                 |         \-----Isabelle PARKER
|         /-----Robert TODD
|        |         \-----Isabelle BODLEY
 \-----Elizabeth TODD
          \-----Isabella HAMILTON



Descendants of Elizabeth PARKER

2nd generation